No prob at all! Thanks!

Make that 76! Your list doesn’t include my presentation, image attached. Maybe because of the term being GenAI instead of AI.

CCCC_2026_Sessions.xlsx

When writing teachers present about AI, how often do they talk about using it vs. refusing it?

So far in the #4C26 program, I count

75 sessions that explore uses of AI
7 sessions that advocate refusing AI
68 sessions that do not advocate use or refusal
link.annarmills.com/sessions

I really like the nuance that @annamillsoer.bsky.social 's post brings to the conversations around Refuse AI and #4C26. The IHE article www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... made it feel like AI Refusal was the only position faculty were taking.

I spend so much of my time convincing automated sinks that I exist

Literally just got out of a curriculum meeting where someone from another department (not philosophy) yelled at everyone, "I TEACH ETHICS," not knowing how incongruent his disrespectful actions were with his words.

Great, relevant topic. If only I had more than 70% of one conference worth of funding a year :(

Pro Tip: sit down and brainstorm in the week after you attend a conference—without researching or using AI. Those talks and ideas are floating around in your head—what are they telling you? #4C26

Buh-bye Cleveland! Flying home from #4C26 a little later than everyone else!

Last day of #4C26. The ideas from this week's sessions keep following us into the hallway.
What conversation has stuck with you this week?
#CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WritingStudies

That's right. Our display copies will officially be cheaper than a bottle of smart water at the #4C26 convention center Starbucks (plus you won't have to wait in a 20 minute line). Come and get em 8AM - 12PM!

Pssssst hey graduate students at #4C26. We're going to be giving way what we don't sell to, well, YOU, so come by our booth before 12PM and pad out your research libraries. You know you'll need it for that lit review.

Great seeing friends from grad school at #4C26!!! :)

If you haven’t said hi yet at #4C26, come by the NCTE booth tomorrow and check out our new book. I’d love to chat about what you’re doing in your classes.

Come check out our qualitative human-focused research tomorrow morning, #4C26! 8:45-9:15 in room 12.

Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors Contributors include: Lauren E. Cagle, Michelle F. Eble, Laura Gonzales, Meredith A. Johnson, Nathan R. John...

The antiracist reviewing heuristic is a great, widely adopted resource that many journals and presses are asking reviewers to use when making their contributions. #4c26 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#4c26 Most of the learning that happens at CCCC is confined to people who attended the sessions. A collection of knowledge work should help mobilize our collective wisdom beyond the physical conference. Can we do something like this companion publication again? publicationsncte.org/content/CCCC...

Looking forward to "Pushing Back against Homogeneity: Conversations with Teachers about Linguistic Justice, Equity, and AI" with my @pairrfeedback.bsky.social colleagues @palimplexus.bsky.social and @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social and also Ana Ruiz Alonso Bartol.
#4C26

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#4C26 #OGS Opening General Session starts in 15 minutes in Grand Ballroom AB. Come join us! Pretty empty so far.

PREORDERS available now - Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices. @mettalrose.bsky.social @ambuck.bsky.social, Rich Shivener, and authors of 25 chapters have pour our heart and soul into this book. Check it out at #4C26!

Check out my latest substack blog post for a behind the scenes look at my qualitative interview research and why its a great opportunity to harness LISTENING for the greater good.

I get to present the mulitmodal award and honorable mentions at the English Department Award Ceremony tonight! Exciting! This year's winners were lit! What an honor to be encouraging and rewarding strong student work!

Quarter system here--I still have 2.5 weeks left. I'm already distracting myself trying to plan what I'm going to do when it's over!

Part of the reason I have developed such a contempt for AIbros like this man and the ecology of techbros who uncritically push AI is the absolute arrogance—they have never set foot in a classroom, or studied pedagogy yet they claim to know better than teachers.

Read my new substack!
open.substack.com/pub/davidcoa...

OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

This is WILD.
Goodbye Apple, Hello OpenAI.
Goodbye privacy, Hello, seemless boundary crossing.
Goodbye Friends, Hello Machines? Hopefully not.

lol. So true. This is definitely a big/interesting/concerning move for GAI to become more PHYSICALLY integrated into our lives...and for OpenAI to overtake Apple.

I just read the #4C26 CFP...please note they are explcitly asking us to NOT write to the theme this year, but just to the rubric. So different!!!

Students Think They’re Terrible Writers—and Gen AI is Making It Worse And What We Can Do About It

Through my 15 years of teaching college writing, students have always told me they are terrible writers. But now, Gen AI makes them think they're even worse. Read my reflections and what we can do about it here. davidcoad.substack.com/p/students-t...

David Coad | Substack I'm a writing professor at Santa Clara University. I write about digital technologies in education, what it's like to teach writing, active/social/theatrical forms of learning, and about insights from...

Peer Review is only useful for the person getting feedback? WRONG! Similarly, teaching observations benefit the observer as well. My new substack post explains what I took from a recent teaching observation, and gives my hot take on why the word "hearing" is better than "listening"!